Very easy to find, just off the A1M between St. Neots and Peterborough.

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4 new spheres supplied and fitted, LDS fluid change and labour all for about £300 - quite good I thought and so much so, when I'm paid, I'll also have the rear centres done as well. Also told the cambelt kit including water pump and labour is only going to run to about £300 so I'll most likely have that done with them as well when it's due....

You don't have to wait any more for disaster when your strut mount will eventually fail!

Our company renovates Citroen XM strut mounts with polyurethane. Original shape, geometry and hardness retained. Improved inside construction now preventing from splitting strut mount into two parts in case of elastomer failure (though its very unlikely with...

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I can personally recommend this mob. Did a lovely job of two sets of XM tops for Team WFA :-D

At the request of Mr Citronut I have begun to add the locations of those garages and services that members have recommended.

Some may be omitted where it is unclear if they are still trading.

More will be added as time permits.

Maplink .

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Looking at the map I noticed the Bermuda Triangle between Gloucester, St Albans and Nottingham. It's the wasteland of the Midlands. Only modern Citroboxes and Peugeots round here. Strangely not that many Renaults to be seen apart from older Scenics. I do see the odd Xantia and a fellow up the road has a 405 estate which I think maybe up for sale...

I bought tyres from Blackcircles, not having heard of this nonsense, the place where they fitted the tyres couldn't balance them.
Quick phone call to Blackcircles, they arranged for Protyres in Portsmouth to balance the wheels at no cost to me.

Working on a suggestion by boristhespie , this thread is devoted to listing prices paid for various services and repairs carried out by garages.
The aim is to give an at-a-glance across the board expectation of how much we would expect a specific service to cost, i.e. headgasket replacement.

Our 2011 C4GP 1.6HDi died on the A38 on a Sunday morning on our way to visit our daughter near Kingsbridge. Once recovered to daughter's drive, she called Steve who returned her call that afternoon. He came and read the fault codes just after 9 on Monday morning as promised, confirming my suspicion of another dead injector (2 in 7 months!). All...

A few years ago I bought a Lexia clone system from Easy Diagnostics. Although it is somewhat more expensive than some of the clones you can buy elsewhere, Easy Diagnostics have good customer support, and their unit is close to current. Jim (from Easy Diagnostics) has posted on the forum, and I have copied his post here (I hope this is acceptable...

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I've updated my post as Jim has finished upgrading his website and is now able to provide a member discount code.

Robin Beecham was excellent and went beyond the call of duty to help me out when the transport company to Zeebrugge never gave us advanced notice nor had the documentation in place. And then again when I needed to pay for the shipping but the filter on my internet router chose to give up the ghost..

On 21 August I ordered a replacement drive-shaft on line from someone offering an unbeatable price. + very reasonable p & p.

I also needed an oilseal but hadn’t found it - ’til after I’d placed the order. Apparently they have a flat rate p & p charge which meant the seal would’ve cost the same again so I phoned them, spoke to someone who I took...

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Are all car components coated with rain soluble paint?

When I fiited a new TCA, I painted the cap of the ball joint black to match, 'cos that was bare metal. Nearly 6 months later, most of which the van's been parked there hardly a trace of paint anywhere.

Back to the original story: PSA owning Mr Auto is, I suppose, quite encouraging BUT what...

I followed this route for my latest MOT......£40 for the test, no retest fee. and if you get a fail first time you can specify precisely to a garage the work needed, or do-it-yourself and book a retest.

I would have no hestiation in doing it again. Courteous service at the Stakeford Workshops of Northumberland County Council, they also have a...

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When I drove taxis my boss took a taxi for the test, it got failed for something stupid and he proceeded to fall out on the tester big time calling him every profanity known to mankind and then some more. I went down 2 days later with a transit that had the firm's name sign written on the back door. I drove it in over the pit, tester walked up to...

Westroen have been going for many many years, i knew of them as my old man used their services when he had his bx's and so when it came to my xantia needing new spheres they were the only choice for me. The gent who did my car knew the in's & out's of the whole xantia suspension system & had all 3 spheres on the front end of my car changed with...

Have had both the 107 and Saab in here now for both repairs and MOTs and am happy to thoroughly recommend them. Especially after the welding on the Saab, which was quite a complicated little bit of reconstructive surgery that they only charged me £95 for...I was expecting at least a 3 in front of that. Work looks good too. CV joint on the 107 was...

The Peugeot 2008 is due it's first service. Normally I would have taken it to Chevronics in Hitchin, Hertfordshire but we have now moved to Haywards Heath in West Sussex so need to find an equally reliable garage.

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks

Saul

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Nothing close enough but thanks anyway. Might have to just chance it on one of the local garages and see how it goes.

I can't personally recommend them as I don't use garages but on several occasions over the last year or two I've seen classic Citroens being worked on so they appear to have time for them and return business.

I'm having the steering rack overhauled on my 2008 X7 C5 and in need of some space in Oxford for a garage to remove it, leave it on a ramp for about 1 week whilst I send the rack off and then refit it along with the power steering pump - anyone got any ideas?

Really happy with ND tyres. Just had mot, 2 tyres fitted and alignment. They were thorough, pleasant and fairly priced at £100 for the lot. I got nice printouts of the wheel alignment and brake test which I like and haven't had before.

Based entirely on what they have done/not done to my car over the years they had it....DO NOT USE

I have found constant BAD workmanship on all jobs done so far......the standards are massively below minimum for cars under warranty and there is no way on this planet that I would pay them anything.
I...

Followers of my Blog will know that I had planned to repair my C5 myself. However, weather looks set in for the next month at least and we all know that Citroens have a mind of their own and WILL blow up completely at the most awkward and inopportune moment they can find!

Hi All i have a great garage to recommend if you live in the Walsall Area He Has Always Given Me A great Service For My Cars His Motto Is Im Not Here To Rip People Off Im here To Make a Living and His Prices are Very Reasonable The Cheapest i have Found in The Area Give Him A Call i think you,ll be pleasantly surprised at the service he provides...

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UPDATE

The Garage Is Still There But Mark As Left A Long Time Ago So I Can No Longer Recommend It

I found out about this Garage after my wifes C8 had a cambelt failure in July.

Gavin Gray at Autotechniks offers a great service, collecting the car from anywhere in the country, removing seized injectors and then carrying out the necessary repairs all for a reasonable fixed price.

Dunno if this is allowed, if not then a mod can delete. If if North-East Scotland do not use Pedigreed Cars, Forres unless you want to wait for weeks to get stuff done, and be overcharged.

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The service manager knew I was slating them on a public Facebook page and he asked me if I thought that was fair to which I asked him if it was fair to have my car for over 2 weeks before they even looked at it. I also told him that if they had done the job in record time at a decent price I would praise them in public. He replied ok fair enough.

I do cover other areas but this will be reflected by a slightly higher price to cover fuel expenses, but very reasonable of course!

A few of you have seen some jobs i've done in the past, and i am happy to carry out any repairs or answer questions people may have. A discount of 10% for mentioning you are a member...

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Is Gareth still in business as his site appears to no longer work :( and we havent heard from him for a good long time since he moved his activa on and had his mondeo St for a while??!!?
The link in my post still works plus try onclick= window.open(this.href);return false; Gareth has done three cars for me, the quality of his work is first class...

Specialism: They are Citroen and Peugot specialists.
Seem to work on all Citroens from 2CV's onwards (I used to have a 2CV and now have a MK2 Xantia and my Father inlaw has a C5). They don't do electrics but have a...

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FYI anyone who needs to use them they now have facilities to drop off and pick cars up after 1600hrs as i know this was a PITA for a lot of people this should help more and they are really clued up on their citroens, recently they did my dads Drives Side trailing arm bearings :)

Recommended source of parking sensors.
Identical to genuine Citroen parts as far as I can tell, at a fraction of the price, and a 10 year warranty.
Very helpful in advising on compatible parts.
They sell other bits too, but I haven't tried them (yet).
No connection, except as a satisfied customer.

I'm really struggling to find a decent garage since the one I have used for 32 years has closed. How long should it take a proper vat registered independent garage and MOT station to get and fit a radius arm bearing, two track rod ends and a drive shaft boot. In the case of Victoria Transport, Old Gamrie Road, Macduff, never in the case of getting...

Just like to point people who live in the Cannock/black country region in the direction of Mobile Vehicle Services in Essington for their servicing and repair needs, I have had extensive dealings with them and have found them to be very professional and they are spec'd to servicing to manufacturers rec's, they have been swapping out my AL4 box atf...

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Thanks for adding the link, once again I can't recommend MVS highly enough, at last a garage I can trust! And all at reasonable pricing compared to Citroen, saved myself hundreds of pounds.

Having rung Doreys in Sway about having the cambelt changed, and them not knowing what an activa was has made me a bit worried about taking it to them, so I'm looking for recommendations around Southampton please.

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A TCT cambelt is one of the easiest in the whole wide world to do...

I remember the Citroen garage is Sway... Not surprised they've never heard of an Activa though... to a Dealer they're old history now...

According to HowManyLeft, There were 798 Activas registered in 1999, and at the end of 2013 there were 34 on the road, and 46 on SORN....

The company FLAG makes a range of stop solenoids at exceptionally low prices
The UK agent is Rivoustel
I ordered a 82-1551 suitable to replace the one in my Citroen Berlingo Multispace 1.9D - list price from Peugeot £471 plus VAT
the FLAG one arrived next day for £12 including VAT and postage
see teir website
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A hearty recommendation for this gearbox and clutch specialist.
Friendly, knowledgable and professional service, fast and unbelievably inexpensive.
Replaced my C5 clutch and flywheel for little more than dealer price of the parts alone (quality LUK parts used), in less than five hours.

i found a brilliant breakers yard today in our search for a front hub for my daughters Synergie,
they must be one of the only old fashioned yards left, were you are alowed to climb over and in and out of the cars to take your own bits off,
very reasonably priced i bought two front struts a front hub two 15 5 stud steel wheel rims, and a throttle...

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Our local scrap yard is like that, you can go and take your own bits off. They have a section of cars which you can just rip things off and another section where they like to watch you take things off, though they get bored and leave you to it after a few minutes :lol: I was there today in fact.

If anyone needs exhaust parts, these guys are very good value,and good quality, probably the cheapest available and free delivery too. No prices online but ring them and they're very helpful, also do other service parts.
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Cheers
Paul